Eli5: Why is the English language most common in this world?
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Because England, for lack of a better term, conquered the world by the 19th century and their influence spread world wide. The British Empire is basically gone now; the US and India are wholly independent, Canada and Australia are self governing, China fought back and installed their own (authoritarian communist) government, and right before WW1, Russia had the Bolshevik revolution which ousted the blood relative of the King of England Czar, but the use of the English language as the lingua franca (basically, the language everyone uses) of the business world stuck.
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